Salman Rushdie Quotes

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

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• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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